>Hi..
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>Is there any solution on matter of searching across table for similar names..
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>soundex() and DIFFERENCE() works fine for english.. And, not so fine for foreign languages (as portuguese) because the phonetic spelling is diferent
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>On PHP we see a good one that returns similar names on a search criteria..
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>TIA
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>Claudio
VFP works only for English; I think you must create, or search for, some UDF that does something similar for Portuguese. The idea is to assign the same digits to similar-sounding consonants. Soundex() does not include vowels.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
